AHF Promotes “One Community, One Love” at Baton Rouge Pride Festival

World’s largest AIDS organization, marking 30-year history of care
and advocacy for people living with HIV/AIDS and the LGBTQ community,
will take part in more than two dozen Pride celebrations across the
country

June 15, 2017 02:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time

BATON ROUGE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AIDS
Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization,
is proud to once again join the LGBTQ community in celebrating the 2017
Gay Pride season through its planned participation in more than two
dozen Pride events across the country. Founded in Los Angeles as AIDS
Hospice Foundation in 1987 to provide a facility for terminally ill AIDS
patients in California, AHF is celebrating its 30th
Anniversary this year and continues to support LGBTQ equality and the
expansion of health care services to treat people living with HIV/AIDS.
At the 2017 Baton Rouge Pride Festival on Saturday, June 17, AHF will
give away free condoms, share information on STD prevention and
treatment, and provide free HIV testing.

AHF is proud to support the LGBTQ community in Baton Rouge through its
AHF Healthcare Center at 8281 Goodwood Blvd., Suite D and its
clinic and pharmacy located at 4890 Bluebonnet Blvd.

“Our AHF staff and patients always look forward to joining with the
LGBTQ community in celebrating life and being out and proud at gay pride
celebrations across the country each year. Our presence at this year’s
Pride is particularly meaningful for us as we mark our 30th
Anniversary of providing care to people living with HIV and AIDS,” said
AHF President Michael Weinstein. “After 30 years of being on the
frontlines in the fight against AIDS, we remain grateful to be able to
provide access to medical care and breakthrough treatments that have
allowed people with HIV to live longer, healthier lives and to help
prevent transmitting the virus to others. Today, we are currently
providing care to over 740,000 patients around the globe and we’re
working to expand our operations internationally to be able to help even
more people.”

In addition to providing free HIV testing and giveaways at Pride
festivals nationwide, AHF patients, volunteers and staff will also march
with its signature “One Community, One Love” Pride bus wrapped with
smiling faces that represent the diversity of LGBTQ individuals and
families. The bus is scheduled to appear in Pride parades in U.S. cities
including Brooklyn (6/10); Long Island (6/11); Washington, DC (6/10);
Columbus, OH (6/17); Houston (6/24); New York City, NY (6/25); San Diego
(7/15); Oakland, CA (9/10); Dallas (9/16); Atlanta, GA (10/14); and Las
Vegas (10/20).

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS
organization, currently provides medical care and/or services to over
720,000 individuals in 36 countries worldwide in the US, Africa, Latin
America/Caribbean, the Asia/Pacific Region and Eastern Europe. To learn
more about AHF, please visit our website: www.aidshealth.org,
find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/aidshealth
and follow us on Twitter: @aidshealthcare
and Instagram: @aidshealthcare.